Linux-Misc Digest #733, Volume #18 Sat, 23 Jan 99 09:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: IBM DB2 (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Genius Soundmaker 3DJ - Help (alessandro)
Re: qpopper error (Matt Denton)
Re: Error: "No such file or directory" on FAT paritition (NF Stevens)
Re: Beowulf Anyone? ("aallen")
Re: Getting Pine to Use a Different From (Michael Powe)
VOX file conversions (Graham Blankenbaker)
Re: How to print a man page? (Rich Grise)
Does recompiling kernel looses patches applied? ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Adaptec U2W controller AND nVidia TNT: Assistance required please ("A Nourai")
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SAMBA Configuration ("LAMY")
Re: 8.9.2: senders domain must exist error#501 ("Dan Ellison")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
Re: "ps axm" vs. "free" and swap (David Efflandt)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
Re: ouch!! Too many open files in system (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Abnormal characters appended in Netscape input field (David Efflandt)
Re: SAMBA observations and questions (Matthew Kirkwood)
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM DB2
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:36:00 +0100
DB uses glibc don't know wich version. SO SuSE 60 will do
Raymond
ostephan wrote:
> Hello,
> hoiw I can installation the IBM DB2 on the Linux SuSE 6.0 (a German
> Distribution)?
> What Lib's are needed ?
> Or witch links are must be setting ?
>
> Please send me a detail Installtion-Node.
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS. Excuseme for my bad English :-)
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From: alessandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Genius Soundmaker 3DJ - Help
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:48:23 +0100
alessandro wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I'm running Slack 3.5.0 (kernel 2.0.34)
>
> Do anybody use a genius soundmaker 3DJ ?
Errata Corrige:
isapnp is OK.
but you must reload sound.o (soundblaster) after it.
workman ok.
cat audio.au > /dev/audio ok.
_BUT_ it seems some program do not sound...
xlincity, for instance.
Why? Anybody knows?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Denton)
Subject: Re: qpopper error
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:16:21 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Plumbly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some of my users are getting the following error message:
>
> This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
>
> a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system
> software.
(etc)
> Anyone else run accross this?
Yes - we started getting this error after upgrading to PINE 4.02 from
3.96. We usually check with a POP client such as Eudora but after a PINE
session we get this message in our inbox. If you find out how to cure
this, let me know.
--
Matt Denton
San Francisco, USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Error: "No such file or directory" on FAT paritition
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:27:48 GMT
linfield@ (Kevin Linfield) wrote:
>I'm having a weird problem that might be Partition Magic's fault.
>
>My FAT partition (drive D under OS/2) is mounted (type msdos) but some
>files don't exist under Linux but do exist under OS/2. For example,
>when I try to perform a backup of my "data" directory, I get (cut here)
>zip -r 990121.zip /ddrive/data/*
>zip warning: name not matched: /ddrive/data/acq/con.exe
>zip warning: name not matched: /ddrive/data/old/con.for
>(and more...)
>
>So I cd /ddrive/data/acq and do a
>ls co*
>/bin/ls: con.exe: No such file or directory
>/bin/ls: con.for: No such file or directory
>(and more...)
>
>This machine was purely OS/2 HPFS a while ago. I used Partition Magic 4.0
>to make a Linux swap, Linux native, and a FAT parition (for sharing data)
>from two large HPFS partitions. The above listed files exist under OS/2,
>but not Slackware 3.4 (kernel 2.0.35).
>
>I have run CHKDSK under OS/2 (no errors) so I am at a loss.
The filenames may have control characters or spaces embedded in them.
Thus when the shell expands the co* to a list of filenames the control
codes or spaces confuse ls.
Try something like
find . -name "co*" -exec echo \"{}\" \;
from the directory containing the files. This will print the actual filenames
in quotes so you can see if anything is wrong.
Norman
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From: "aallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Beowulf Anyone?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:59:39 GMT
Thanks Glen,
I notice that many of the designs involve a network switch versus using a
hub for communications speed. Do you know if this is required or not? How
does a switch improve communications speed over a hub - is it because the
switch is intelligent?
Also, with the PVM software it appears that one node is setup as the master
- that which schedules and monitors all the jobs. Have you got this far in
setting up your system yet? Thanks.
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Subject: Re: Getting Pine to Use a Different From
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Jan 1999 14:13:59 -0800
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>>>>> "William" == William Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
William> Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] this past Wed, 20 Jan 1999
William> 01:33:03 GMT:
>> I'm attempting to get pine to adjust the name I send from. I'm
>> using fetchmail to pull messages onto my system, but when I
>> send message it has my local address in the from field.
William> Go to the pine configuration screen. There is an option
William> (closer to the end than the beginning, IIRC) called
William> customized-hdrs or something similar. You can put in any
William> headers you want there (separate mutliple headers with a
William> space). So, for example, you might include
The ability to change the `From:' line in Pine is a compile-time
option. ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM is the flag that needs to be set. The
default is for this capability to be turned off.
mp
8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
8<-----------------------here's-one-example------------------------------>8
- --
Michael Powe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
Portland, Oregon USA
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:44:55 -0500
From: Graham Blankenbaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux
Subject: VOX file conversions
Does anyone out there know of a program that will convert VOX files
(that are played to a Dialogic D/41D or D/41H board) from a bitrate of
6k to 8k?
Graham Blankenbaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rich Grise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to print a man page?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:14:21 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any way to
> print the man or xman page in it's original formating?
Well, I ran man man on one xterm, and ps auw on another, and came up
with this:
(echo ".ll 11.4i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz) |
/usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | /usr/bin/less
and so instead of piping it through less, I did this:
(echo ".ll 11.4i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz) |
/usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | stripbackspaces >
man.1.txt
where stripbackspaces is a tiny little perl program:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<STDIN>) {
s/.\x08//ig;
print;
}
Of course, instead of /usr/man/man1/man1.gz you'd use whichever file you
want to
look at, and the other appropriate paths for gtbl (whatever that is) and
groff.
Should this go in one of the FAQ's?
Cheers!
Rich Grise
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(No need to fuss with my e-mail: I have a "delete" button!)
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does recompiling kernel looses patches applied?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:40:36 +1100
Assume I have the latest kernel yesterday, then patches were announced
today and I applied them (binaries only).
Then I decided to recompile kernel to remove unwanted drivers, etc.
Will I lose the patches applied so that I have to reapply the patches?
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From: "A Nourai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.act.scsi,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Adaptec U2W controller AND nVidia TNT: Assistance required please
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:08:29 +1100
*Are the U2W adaptec controllers (AIC 7890) supported by redhat?
*Is there any (unofficial i guess) support for TNT vid cards for x?
Please reply to this newsgroup or email me (take of the anti spam XXX pls)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: 23 Jan 1999 11:44:03 GMT
In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>>> "peter" == peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> peter> Hotmail still runs : www.hotmail.com is running
> peter> Apache/1.2.1 on FreeBSD. according to netcraft.
> >> According to two sources I looked at on the net, including one
> >> from MS itself, HotMail production servers run Apache on
> >> Solaris. There also apparently is some FreeBSD in the mix.
> peter> I guess that hotmails machines can speak for themselfs.
> peter> They are still claiming to run freebsd and apache.
> Okay, I didn't realize you were a world expert. I take it you
> personally checked every machine there.
Let's keep this without personal attacs ok ?
What i am saying is that hotmail does exchange tcp/ip packets in a way
that looks very much like freebsd systems do. And i am talking
about which tcp options are set, which are accepted and
typical values of windows, tos classes etc.
It's much like a fingerprint. Netcraft is one of the good tools
that could be used by You!
You could make another os look like this, provided you have
source code access and a lot of money.
But why should microsoft/hotmail put money in an attemt to make solaris
look like freebsd ???
If you have mis'understood me (or i did not express myself correct) :
what i do claim is that hotmail uses freebsd + apache for their webservers.
> >> _________________________________________________________________
> >> FACTS ABOUT HOTMAIL'S PRODUCTION OS ENVIRONMENT
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> May, 1998 SITUATION Rumors have surfaced regarding Hotmail's
> >> utilization of Solaris to run the Hotmail web based e-mail
> >> service and a failed attempt to port Hotmail to Microsoft��
> >> Windows NT�� Server. These rumors are inaccurate and Microsoft
> >> and Hotmail would like to set the record straight by focusing
> >> on the facts.
> >> [ ... ]
> peter> Do you alwaye belive everything MS says ??
> Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
No. But i don't have english as my native language.
And if i want to know something i look under the hood
instead of asking the salesman.
Your mileage may vary (as the say)
> mp
> 8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
> #! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
> while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
> if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
> if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
> substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
> $from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
> printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
> 8<-----------------------here's-one-example------------------------------>8
> - --
> Michael Powe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
> Portland, Oregon USA
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From: "LAMY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SAMBA Configuration
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:27:15 +0100
Hello People
Is there any little program for easily configurating the smb.conf file ?
Thanx in advance
LAMY
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dan Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: 8.9.2: senders domain must exist error#501
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 07:14:29 -0600
Domain name in /etc/hosts? Don't these belong in /etc/networks? I don't
think sendmail will look here (unless compiled without DNS support perhaps.)
What do you get if you use dig to query your nameserver for an mx record for
the domain?
dig @localhost my.domain mx
Should give a name and address of the host for the domain if the dns is
configured right.
Good luck,
Dan Ellison
Christophe Zwecker wrote in message <788il7$2k1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I just installed RH 5.2 and got sendmail compiled. Now when I try to
>send mail with pine I get above error. I got a domainname and its in
>/etc/hosts and in the nameserver. User [EMAIL PROTECTED], sendmail tells me
>the domain doesn't exist. How can that be ?
>
>I appreciate any help, thx alot
>
>Chris
>--
>Christophe Zwecker
>Hamburg, Germany
>mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>fax: +49 40 22715433
>sms: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (120 chars, subject only)
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From: Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 23 Jan 1999 13:13:33 +0000
* Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Well, my point was that it was inherently *easier* to read capitalized
| sentences. They are more readable.
this is not backed by independent studies. lots of opinions stated by
people who agree to it, sure, but not any tests of people who are either
indifferent to the issue or just your average control group "readers".
| My statement that capitalization makes sentences more readable is *not*
| my opinion, it is a fact.
then where are the studies and the reports showing that purported fact?
just because you think so and have heard other people say so, doesn't
make it a fact. to give you a very real example of how people can
believe things to be facts that aren't: lots of Norwegians think the
United States have 52 states. the source for this is _probably_ an
erroneous claim in a textbook for third grade published in 1960 which
counted Hawaii and Alaska twice each after they achieved statehood in
1959, but that might again reflect a popular opinion at the time. you
will find many Norwegians who proclaim that it's a _fact_ that there are
52 states, and this persistent myth has been the object of some research
in how false statements of fact remain rock solid in people's memory.
| But, this rule exists for a reason. It evolved for readability.
I'd like to see the reference for this. capitalization has evolved for a
number of different reasons, but all I have found solid evidence for is
that various languages have _downcased_ previously upper-cased words to
increase readability. like Norwegian, which dropped capitalization of
nouns. we also don't have proper adjectives, like Marxist, Norwegian,
Boolean, etc, but lowercase them, so only proper nouns remain.
now, there _is_ solid evidence that lower-case letters are much easier to
read than upper-case letters. the evidence suggests that the lower-case
letters were _designed_ for legibility. furthermore, much work has been
done in typography to create fonts that are highly legible. of interest
in this regard is the trend in modern typography to use upper-case
letters _much_ less frequently than was previously the case. company
logos in lower-case were unheard-of until the 1970's. I imagine that
some people would brand them as unlearned or evil-doers and what not.
there is no evidence that lack of sentence-initial capitalization reduces
reading speed in other people than those who are annoyed by it, but there
is evidence that removing other random capitalizations increased reading
speed, except in people who were annoyed by it.
#:Erik
--
SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random
intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: "ps axm" vs. "free" and swap
Date: 23 Jan 1999 13:19:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18 Jan 1999 16:47:48 -0800, Terry Husie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Isn't the kernel supposed to protect itself against rouge apps? My swap
>area fills up until system crashes, even though I restart hog programs
>in a futile attempt to clear out swap.
>
>My total of "ps axm" SWAP column is much less than output of "free".
>(They're probably leftovers from Netscape.)
>
>No mail, thanks.
What distribution? When I had RedHat 5.0, nearly everything had to be
replaced with errata updates and the newer kernel was not even there. I
only stumbled upon the newer kernel rpm when rummaging around the sound
directory on RedHat's ftp site trying to figure out why sound did not work
in a generic kernel (kernel that came with RH5.0 would not work as Pentium
w/ my Pentium MMX). It also left glint and python zombies from the
control panel in X, which I never found how to fix.
RH 5.2 seems to have cleaned up the glint and python zombies, but certain
programs run in the background (like 'usernet &') can still linger after
you exit X, and may hog resources.
Compiling a your own kernel with modules and without things you don't need
can help. I remember seeing 48 meg used immediately after booting a
distribution kernel, but now with a compiled kernel in X with nxterm, licq
and slrn running, I show 28 meg used (68 meg free) and 0 swap used.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 23 Jan 1999 13:17:31 +0000
* Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| But, if this does not persudade you, let's take a poll:
|
| [ ] I find sentences that begin with capitalized words easier to read.
| [ ] I do NOT find sentences that begin with capitalized words easier to read.
|
| (If the latter item is checked, then why do you write according to
| grammatical rules?)
is this the kind of unscientific crap that supports your position?
an honest researcher would have been smart enough to realize that those
who check box two above may be _unaffected_ by the capitalization rules,
and just do it because there are nutcases who harrass them if they don't
and they don't feel like defending themselves. especially not against
"poll-takers" who know _nothing_ about poll-taking and how to ensure that
the results are scientifically valid.
sheesh. people who want sentence-initial capitals are so _irrational_.
#:Erik
--
SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random
intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: ouch!! Too many open files in system
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:37:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek) writes:
>Hi all,
>I've been going through archives and mailling lists for a few hours today
>without much reference to my current problem. "Too many open files in
>system".
[...]
>I'm pretty new to linux, my background is more BSD. In BSD I would flip
>around with MAXUSERS and MAX_OPEN and recompile my kernel, then check
Close.
In Linux, it's NR_OPEN and OPEN_MAX , and you'll have to change it
manually in the corresponding include files prior to recompiling the kernel.
IIRC, limits.h and fs.h have to be edited that way.
Michael
--
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't mungle your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Abnormal characters appended in Netscape input field
Date: 23 Jan 1999 13:33:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:43:27 +0800, Mark L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have experienced sometimes some extra abnormal characters may appended
>to the text typed in the url or in the form fields.
>Is there any setting we missed to do? The same version of netscape for
>window never has this error. This happened in version 4.5, 4.07 and 4.05
>of netscape.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't remember any such errors in 4.05 (RH 5.2), although, I did have
trouble accessing some pages (that may have been when I updated navigator
w/o updating netscape base files). RedHat has an errata update to 4.08
and that works fine once I got it completely installed.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: Matthew Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SAMBA observations and questions
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:45:49 +0000
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > HP-9000 <-- NFS -- Linux <-- SMB -- Win95
>
> [snip]
[snip]
> > That's odd. Which version of samba are you using, and what does your
> > smb.conf look like?
>
> 1.9.18pl5
>
> mount.remote script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> do_cmd(){
> echo $*
> $*
> }
>
> cmd="smbmount //srcpc101/datain /home/remote/datain -c srcpc112 -P
> {password}" do_cmd $cmd cmd="smbmount //srcpc101/dataout /home/remote/dataout
> -c srcpc112 -P {password}" do_cmd $cmd cmd="smbmount //srcpc101/usdatain
> /home/vantive/sub/datain -c srcpc112 -P {password}" do_cmd $cmd cmd="smbmount
> //srcpc101/usdataout /home/vantive/sub/dataout -c srcpc112 -P {password}"
> do_cmd $cmd
>
> smb.conf (as you can see, it's not much changed):
[snip]
Ah, now it's looking familiar. I think it's a Win95 bug which you can
work about by recompiling your kernel with "Win95 Bug Workaround" enabled.
Matthew.
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